Soon after he was elected in 1458, Pope Pius II commissioned the architect Bernardo Rossellino to transform his native village of Corsignano into which town in Tuscany, one of the earliest examples of Renaissance urban planning?

Dating from 1545, the oldest academic botanical garden in its original location in all of Europe is located in which Italian city?

Which necropolis is famous for its large number of Etruscan tombs dating from the 9th century BCE to the late 1st century CE?

Which ancient city’s most famous remains are its seven Doric temples?

Which city, which became a Roman colony in 89 BCE and was captured by Charlemagne in 774 CE, is home to the third largest still-existing Roman amphitheatre?

Famous as the home of the 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio and his successor Vincenzo Scamozzi, which is the location of the Basilica, the Loggia del Capitanio, and the Teatro Olimpico?

Which city, which was the capital of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century CE, is home to the Church of San Vitale?

Where was the Castel Nuovo founded in 1279 by Charles of Anjou?

Which originally Etruscan settlement that later became a Roman city has a great cathedral transformed in the 13th century into one of the finest examples of Italian Gothic architecture?

Which city, founded in 729 BCE by Chalcidians, was almost completely rebuilt after the 1693 earthquake?